Johannes Mauburnus (c1460-1501)

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Johannes Mauburnus (c1460-1501)

Rosetum 1494

MAUBURNUS, Johannes (c.1460-1501). Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum. [Zwolle: Pieter van Os,] 1494.



The Sussex-Crewe-Schaefer copy of the first edition of the principal devotional work of Jan Mombaer of Brussels, whose ideal of asceticism and contemplation was widely admired among the monastic and lay followers of the Devotio moderna: the Windesheim Congregation and the Brethren of the Common Life. It is even said to have influenced the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. Mombaer served as inspector of libraries of the Congregation and was one of the first to insist that Thomas à Kempis and not Jean Gerson was the author of Imitatio Christi. The title illustration is the only evidence of survival of any block from the blockbook Song of Solomon. The mnemonic hand woodcut is an enlarged copy of one used by Van Os in 1491. HC *13995; CA 1224; BMC IX, 88; BSB-Ink M-272; ILC 1556; Goff M-376; ISTC im00376000.



Chancery folio (285 x 208mm). 290 leaves, with both blanks. Xylographic 2-line title. Large woodcut on title-page is the upper block from the first illustration in the Netherlandish blockbook Canticum canticorum (c.1465, Schreiber I), full-page woodcut of a mnemotechnical hand on c1v, both with contemporary hand-colouring, initial spaces with printed guide-letter. (Some light marginal dampstaining, small marginal stain in quire E.) Contemporary Netherlandish calf over wooden boards diapered in blind, later red edges (18th-century reback, back board detached, worn); modern green leather-backed box. Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (bookplate) – Robert Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe (bookplate; Sotheby's 26 October 1970, lot 149, to) – [M. Breslauer, Catalogue 102, no. 107; sold to:] – Otto Schaefer (monogram stamp at end, Arnim catalogue 228).

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